The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JSSR), the quarterly publication of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, has published research on religious phenomena for over forty years. Drawing on a rich interdisciplinary cross-section of scholarship -- including religion, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, and history -- the journal offers scholarly analysis of the role of religion in society. Examples of topics covered include patterns of church membership and growth, the relationship between religion and health, the relationship between religion and social attitudes, the rise of fundamentalism, secularization and sacralization, and new religious movements. JSSR is an important publication for those who desire to keep current with scholarship on the role and impact of religion in today's world.

The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue
available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal.
Moving walls are generally represented in years. In rare instances, a
publisher has elected to have a "zero" moving wall, so their current
issues are available in JSTOR shortly after publication.
Note: In calculating the moving wall, the current year is not counted.
For example, if the current year is 2008 and a journal has a 5 year
moving wall, articles from the year 2002 are available.

Terms Related to the Moving Wall

Fixed walls: Journals with no new volumes being added to the archive.

Absorbed: Journals that are combined with another title.

Complete: Journals that are no longer published or that have been
combined with another title.

Abstract

The Ramakrishna movement, beginning in nineteenth century India, and represented today by many schools, hospitals, publishing houses, and missions, is analyzed as an example of a modern religious movement. Among the factors examined are the influence of Ramakrishna's personality in supplying the passional and charismatic underpinnings of the movement, the role of westernizing supporters, the relationship of Ramakrishna to his disciples, and the process by which hero-worship was replaced by a service-orientation. The general thesis is that the Ramakrishna movement owed much of its strength initially to its striking fusion of an archaic, traditionalist rhetoric with a "modern" set of meliorative goals.